• A good one from Haspel.

• A list of the Cancelled.

Bears repeating: Nature hates you and wants you dead.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-08-25

Interesting list of the cancelled. Number 3 was especially interesting, as they were cancelled not for being unsupportive of BLM, but not supportive enough.

Plot twist: The models wearing this are actually in their mid 20s. It's just an Asian thing to look like that.

https://twitter.com/PessimisticArt1/status/1297972531891240960

Vids—

• Silverbacks.

• I had no idea there lyrics for it; but upon starting this clip, was reminded, within three seconds, of the supernatural beauty of its melody. Very few tunes bring that kind of emotional rush. Maybe Penny Lane sixty years later, or Prelude #1 in C Major two hundred years earlier. Boom

In looking through the list of the cancelled, I was also interested in reading about 39, Tabitha Morris. Apparently, she posted a Facebook video, denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement, saying she doesn't support it. And she was fired for it.

I looked for the video on YouTube, and this is apparently the one. Not sure I 100% disagree with her termination. She worked in the medical field and this video comes off as a unprofessional. She appeared on a radio show, and the host advised her to set up a GoFundMe. However, the protesters got that shut down, too.

From 15 years ago, one may research zane greene california today and see what happens...

Radwaste's link takes us back to those carefree days of yore when Amy would write things like this:

Stern Warning About The Jack Boots Under Karl Rove's Bed

"A Student of Democracy's Collapse," The New York Times calls Fritz Stern, in a story by Chris Hedges. A Holocaust survivor, Stern sees frightening parallels in the religious right and Nazi fascism:

(etc.)

Well, here we are… Fifteen years later, government (Government!) has literally CLOSED THE CHURCHES, and people are pretty much complying. And for an entire summer, we've seen rampant violence against small businesses and police in LEFTIST-dominated communities. (And, as always, senseless murder in Chicago.)

One things that's amazed me across these many weeks… Ours is a nation of small-arms owners: Why haven't they defended their interests more aggressively when their requests for mercy from mobs have gone unheeded?

• Like this.

• Ah, here we go.

Ours is a nation of small-arms owners: Why haven't they defended their interests more aggressively when their requests for mercy from mobs have gone unheeded?

Given that the intersection of where the mobs are, where the gun restrictions are the highest, and where the gun owners reside, there is a great deal of overlap between items 1 and 2, and not so much for #3.

And if you happen to be #3 and live in a locale where the prosecutor is Soros backed, you'll find yourself charged to the maximum extent of the law.

Or— You can lose all that you and your family have sacrificed for, because some dick-fisted teenager is angry at his alcoholic stepfather and wants to share the pain.

My new home is on a verge of fastidiously-masked, hand-washing intellectual strivers and goofball hillbillies, enchanted by their useless reliance on filthy, moist cowboy bandanas to contain a sub-micron pathogen:

WANT

> Not sure I 100% disagree
> with her termination.

If "Cancellation" were forgivable, we wouldn't have a precious & stylish new name for it.

Radwaste's link takes us back to those carefree days of yore when Amy would write things like this: ~ Crid at August 25, 2020 10:44 AM

So it's anything but silly and distracting to point out that Nazism owed much of its existence to religious fanaticism. ~ from the link by Crid at August 25, 2020 10:44 AM

The fanaticism of the Nazis was religious in nature, but it wasn't Christian. National Socialism was contemptuous of Christianity in general and Catholicism specifically. One of their eventual goals was to de-Christianize Germany. 95% of the 2,700+ clergy imprisoned in Dachau were Catholic. There was even a dedicated "priests barracks" at Dachau.

The Nazis brutally suppressed the Catholic Church in their occupation of Poland, closely tied as it was to Poland's national identity. Thousands of Polish priests were killed by the Nazis.

German antipathy toward Catholicism dates back to the days of Martin Luther and the medieval religious wars. In the 20th century, Otto von Bismarck was intolerant of any power base outside of Germany (thus not under his control), so he began a culture war against the Pope and Catholicism.

In general, though, Nazi hostility toward organized religion included all denominations. The National Socialist ideology could not accept any autonomous establishment not under the control of National Socialism.

Hmm, a collectivist philosophy demanding religious fervor, hostile to outside belief systems, dividing people by race, and founded on centralized socio-economic control. Sound familiar?

Raddy's link has me looking for things I said fifteen years ago that I might regret today.

> Bush is an idiot-

Less than a generation ago, we went through this with Reagan. His adversaries were so eager to belittle him with their freeze-dried appraisals that they squatted motionless on the path.

So history deftly carted itself around them, pausing only to humiliate them politically. It's happening again, less than a generation later. What gives? I have a theory, and thanks for asking.

The human heart is endlessly needy. A big need is the impulse to look down on others. Life is shitty, and the soul medicates itself by entertaining the perception that whatever one's own faults, at least one is doing better than this or that neighbor. Popular metrics include beauty, money, race, and faith. Today we're talking about brains.

I've posted links about it here repeatedly, but it's important to understand that people who do well in school tend to go through life thinking that they ought to be running the shop. And yet they don't: Bill Gates could probably have sailed through Harvard to graduation as a part-time student, but even as a teenager he had bigger fish to fry. There are things in life more important --and more rewarding-- than making the schoolmarm proud of you. But if that's what you're good at, and how you've been well-rewarded over twenty years of education, you might not see it that way.

Most voters understand this. They voted for Clinton despite his Rhodes scholarship, not because of it. Without his hillbilly background and his comfort in churches (white, black, rural and urban) he'd never have been elected.

Remember the 2002 Vanity Fair cover with the national security team on the cover? It was a room full of toothy, brainiac sharks: Tenet, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice... And there was the President, smiling mildly, with his suit jacket open and his fingers in his pockets, revealing the silly Texas belt buckle. It betokened an allegiance no more noble, but not any less, than most of the social ties which bind us.

Many of Dubya's adversaries (like Reagan's) are throwing grade-school sugar fits in the corner of the room, flapping their arms and sputtering "He's STUPID! He just IS! He's STUPID, and I'm not going to let you tell me otherwise!" And yet/and so, his victories stack ever higher.

I suspect your disconnect from the American voter happened on the day you decided that "discourse" was a skill presidents needed. Or that ANYONE needed, for that matter. When voters see the belt buckle, they know Dubya is a guy they could talk to: Whether he chooses to get bitch-slapped by dickless wigracks like Sam Donaldson is his own business.

> He is totally incapable...

Stop it. You sound like a Valley girl.

Cridland at February 22, 2005 2:11 PM

Twitter has some distressing clips from 'protests' in a number of cities. Ben is correct that these are somewhat localized problems, even if he's mistaken about their geography and number.

So just to remind everyone:

The answer to "Are you with us or against us?" is always, always and ten thousand years beyond your death, "Against!"

Moar me-being-right from that same page:

NATO is over. In ten years the office space will house a bunch of manicurists. This administration has rightfully acknowledged that Europe has nothing to contribute to the global war on terror either in terms of political will or military power. They're too distracted with the burgeoning technocracies of the EU and their own influx of badly-assimilating immigrants to be of any use as partners elsewhere.

The media are wrong: Mutual cooperation with Europe is anything but "paramount." It's between four and forty years too late for them to start working towards a democratic Iraq.

Let Jacques play his little translation games during toasts at the state dinners... Bush goes over there and says basically nothing, becuase there's nothing to say. We don't want much from them, except that their culprits in Oil-For-Food be fully prosecuted.

Less than a generation ago, we went through this with Reagan. His adversaries were so eager to belittle him with their freeze-dried appraisals that they squatted motionless on the path. ...adversaries (like Reagan's) are throwing grade-school sugar fits in the corner of the room, flapping their arms and sputtering.... ~ Crid at August 25, 2020 3:28 PM

Forty years after Reagan's ascent and it's still the same tired grade-school sugar fits.

"Ours is a nation of small-arms owners: Why haven't they defended their interests more aggressively when their requests for mercy from mobs have gone unheeded?" ~Crid

The mobs are cowardly. When people do defend themselves the mobs run away. Heck, when they just threaten to defend themselves the mobs run away. You don't even have to shoot. So, why doesn't any of that make the news? Thankfully businesses not torched isn't newsworthy. It is just normal.

"Ours is a nation of small-arms owners: Why haven't they defended their interests more aggressively when their requests for mercy from mobs have gone unheeded?"

Again, chagrin that I didn't see this. First, these victims all voted themselves out of the ability to defend themselves - classic Darwinian selection. Then they alienated anyone who could help.